‘We became friends ... and then best friends ... and then we fell in love…’

"We met the first day of our freshman year. We became friends ... and then best friends ... and then we fell in love. But the process took a while — seven years before we became a couple, and 10 before we married.

We've been back to UMass often, and last September our oldest child became a freshman at the UMass-Amherst Commonwealth Honors College. Who knows ... maybe he's following in our footsteps in more ways than one — maybe he's already met the person he'll marry someday down the road!"

- Steve Hurley

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we're celebrating and sharing the stories of people who found their soulmates on one of our five campuses. Have a Love at UMass story you'd like to share? Tell us your story.